Erin
@florzinha1897.bsky.social
Fiction writer. Discalced Carmelite Secular. Lover of coffee and libraries. 🥄 she/her
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People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Heads-up to anyone who got a measles vaccine as a child: You can get a titer test to make sure you still have immunity! My doctor suggested this a few months ago, and I needed another shot. Vaccines are good!
If only there was a safe, cheap and effective way to halt its spread.
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
December 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Heads-up to anyone who got a measles vaccine as a child: You can get a titer test to make sure you still have immunity! My doctor suggested this a few months ago, and I needed another shot. Vaccines are good!
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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The playbook is Palestine. Always been. If the fascists can convince you to look away, to stay quiet, to weigh the odds, to hesitate on speaking up -- about literal genocide -- the fascists can get away with anything.
All they have to do is lie loudly, retract quietly, and do crimes relentlessly.
All they have to do is lie loudly, retract quietly, and do crimes relentlessly.
September 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The playbook is Palestine. Always been. If the fascists can convince you to look away, to stay quiet, to weigh the odds, to hesitate on speaking up -- about literal genocide -- the fascists can get away with anything.
All they have to do is lie loudly, retract quietly, and do crimes relentlessly.
All they have to do is lie loudly, retract quietly, and do crimes relentlessly.
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Before the Nazis engaged in mass murder of Jews, they did mass murder of people with mental illness and disabilities.
September 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Before the Nazis engaged in mass murder of Jews, they did mass murder of people with mental illness and disabilities.
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When you’re asked to consider disability justice, it’s never “instead of” a different cause.
It’s a call to support every justice movement deeply & effectively.
Climate change, capitalism, fascism, racism, transphobia, sexism, genocide, &c are disabling. They want to disable those who resist, too.
It’s a call to support every justice movement deeply & effectively.
Climate change, capitalism, fascism, racism, transphobia, sexism, genocide, &c are disabling. They want to disable those who resist, too.
July 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When you’re asked to consider disability justice, it’s never “instead of” a different cause.
It’s a call to support every justice movement deeply & effectively.
Climate change, capitalism, fascism, racism, transphobia, sexism, genocide, &c are disabling. They want to disable those who resist, too.
It’s a call to support every justice movement deeply & effectively.
Climate change, capitalism, fascism, racism, transphobia, sexism, genocide, &c are disabling. They want to disable those who resist, too.
Grateful to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for publishing my story (with death! and late-stage capitalism!)
July 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Grateful to @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for publishing my story (with death! and late-stage capitalism!)
I believe they call this Nahbemus Papam
May 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I believe they call this Nahbemus Papam
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
My gynecologist really went "So you haven't bothered to look into EDS?" when I told her I didn't have a diagnosis today. 🫠
January 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
My gynecologist really went "So you haven't bothered to look into EDS?" when I told her I didn't have a diagnosis today. 🫠
I went to a new doctor yesterday and he started the appointment with “I have all your notes and records and imaging and I reviewed them, but I want to hear from YOU what’s going on.” This is how to make patients feel seen and heard!
January 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I went to a new doctor yesterday and he started the appointment with “I have all your notes and records and imaging and I reviewed them, but I want to hear from YOU what’s going on.” This is how to make patients feel seen and heard!
Are we serious that the consolation for getting through 2024 is 2025?
December 27, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Are we serious that the consolation for getting through 2024 is 2025?
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Everybody remember to go get you a library card to help keep them funded
December 27, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Everybody remember to go get you a library card to help keep them funded
Benefit to having a cat that nobody talks about: She walked on me and cracked my aching back 🥰
December 20, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Benefit to having a cat that nobody talks about: She walked on me and cracked my aching back 🥰
Love 2 have both brain fog AND brain zaps, my own personal cognitive thunderstorm
December 12, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Love 2 have both brain fog AND brain zaps, my own personal cognitive thunderstorm
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Hello friendos
Your librarian here with the library tip
Your library might have a collection of Useful Things you can check out for personal use. Anything from tools to baking pans to garden seeds to home projectors to toys to science kits to sports equipment to music instruments. Take a look!
Your librarian here with the library tip
Your library might have a collection of Useful Things you can check out for personal use. Anything from tools to baking pans to garden seeds to home projectors to toys to science kits to sports equipment to music instruments. Take a look!
December 6, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Hello friendos
Your librarian here with the library tip
Your library might have a collection of Useful Things you can check out for personal use. Anything from tools to baking pans to garden seeds to home projectors to toys to science kits to sports equipment to music instruments. Take a look!
Your librarian here with the library tip
Your library might have a collection of Useful Things you can check out for personal use. Anything from tools to baking pans to garden seeds to home projectors to toys to science kits to sports equipment to music instruments. Take a look!
Grades are really due by the end of the night on Christmas Eve?? Truly Scrooge McDuck behavior.
December 7, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Grades are really due by the end of the night on Christmas Eve?? Truly Scrooge McDuck behavior.
Begging universities to understand that 11-hour interviews are an accessibility issue. My body feels like a cemetery today.
December 6, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Begging universities to understand that 11-hour interviews are an accessibility issue. My body feels like a cemetery today.
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like